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Bookmark this pageJust Before Nightfall (1971)
Director: Claude Chabrol
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From Time Out Film Guide
Chabrol's tortuous, entertaining study of murder and the expiation of guilt in a small suburban town, a low-key thriller about a husband who murders his mistress (his best friend's wife), tries to confess and accept punishment, but finds a bland bourgeois unwillingness to recognise guilt from his own wife and friends. Organised in Chabrol's lurid, witty and elegant manner, this was his last productive mining of the themes of La Femme Infidèle before they were transmuted through repetition into the farcical intrigues of Les Noces Rouges. Direction, acting and script are all meticulous, and the use of subplot (the meek accountant who robs the hero's safe) is especially fine.Author: DP
Cast & crew
Director: Claude Chabrol
Producer: André Génoves
Cast: Stéphane Audran, Michel Bouquet, François Périer, Anna Douking, Dominique Zardi, Henri Attal, Jean Carmet, Marina Ninchi full cast
Genre(s): Thrillers
Duration: 107 mins
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